Born 1970 in Wigan, UK, lives and works in Hackney Wick, London, UK
Education
2015 – 2019 Practice Based PhD Fine Art Candidate, London Metropolitan University
2009 - 2010 Master of Arts:The Body in Performance: Dance Theatre, Laban, London
2006 - 2009 BA (Hons) in Fine Art and Photography, University of East London
2011 - 2013 PG Cert in Education - Post Compulsory, Institute of Education, London
Prizes, Awards, Grants & Artist Residences, Published,
2019 Selected by the Culture Diary & Arts Council UK, to represent the UK Visual Arts in Hong Kong for Global Art Week: Art Basel
2017 World of Co, Artist Residency, Sofia, Bulgaria, September 2017
2017 Hackney Wicked Festival, Open Studios Bursary, London, UK
2015 Make: Believe UK Design for Performance, 2011- 2015 The Society of British Theatre Designers Exhibition Catalogue
2014 Aesthetica Art Prize 2014 Anthology 100 Contemporary Artists: Installation
2014 Hackney Wicked Festival, Open Studios Bursary, London, UK
Solo Shows
2019 Grey Gardens, Pop-Up Research Sculptural Installation, Saatchi Gallery, London
2016 Look Again, Stour Space Art gallery, Fish Island, London, UK
Group Shows
2019
Serenity, V&A Friday Late: Hackney Wick, London, 25 Oct 2019
2017
Inside-Out, Here East, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London
Hackney Wicked Festival 2017, Open Studios
Nasty Women, Stour Space Gallery, Fish Island, London
Visual Flaneurs, World of Co Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
Modern Panic VIII, Apiary Studios, Bethnal Green, London
Emotional Spaces, The Performance Art Depot, Mainz, Germany,
2016
Sensorium, University of East London,
Greased Up, Micks Garage, Hackney Wick, London
Painting Connections, Things & UCL ISR & CASA
2015
Make: Believe UK Design for Performance 2011-2015, V&A, London,
Open Studios, Hackney Wicked DIY Festival, London
Open Studios, The London Festival of Architecture
2014
Open Studios, Blisters Show, Absorb Arts, London
The Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition, York Museums Trust, York
Juxtapose, The Darkroom Gallery, Vermont, USA
Open Studios, Hackney Wicked Festival, London
2013 Open Studios, Hackney Wicked Festival, London
2008 Who are we? BA Photography show, University of East London
2007 A Utopian World, BA Photography Show, University of East London
Public Art Commissions
Dec 2014– April 2017 Sorry for Today’s Blandness, Get Living London, Entrance Foyer of Coville Mansions, E20
Dec 2014- April 2017 The Rules are in your head, Get Living London Entrance Foyer of Mira House, E20
Dance/Live Performance/Exhibition
2013 Deliberate Digression, The Performance Art Depot, Mainz, Germany
2013 The Modern Dreamer, Critical Costumes Symposium, Edge Hill University
2012 The Modern Dreamer. Space Station 65 Gallery, London
2012 The Modern Dreamer, Duckie at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, London
2012 The Modern Dreamer, The Performance Art Depot Pad, Mainz, Germany
2012 The End of the World, The Performance Art Depot, Mainz, Germany
2011 The Spectacle, Duckie at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, London
2011 Pop & Anarchy & Mute Codes, Performance Art Depot Pad, Germany
2010 Mute codes, Bonnie Bird Theatre, Trinity Laban, London
2010 The Melancholic, Bonnie Bird Theatre, Trinity Laban, London
2009 Pop, The Marie LLoyd Bar, Hackney, London
2009 Spoiling my Perfect World, Degree showcase, University of East London
2009 Broken Mundanity, University of East London
2008 The Angry Community, Cinema screening at Stratford Circus Theatre London
Publications
2016 Portraits of Hackney, Hoxton Mini Press, Jenny Lewis
2015 Make: Believe UK Design for Performance 2011-2015 The Society of British Theatre Designers Exhibition Catalogue
2014 Aesthetica Art Prize Anthology 100 Contemporary Artists, special edition
Published & Article Links & TV
2017
2015 http://www.londonlive.co.uk/news/2015-04-15/world-art-day
2012 http://www.fashioninstallation.com/2012/09/marie-brenneis.html
2012 http://www.morfae.com/1568-marie-brenneis/
2012 http://www.wiesbadener-kurier.de/lokales/kultur/theater/wie-aus-einer-anderen-welt_13063556.htm
2011 http://www.allgemeine-zeitung.de/lokales/mainz/nachrichten-mainz/mit-mikrochip-im-kopf_11942693.htm
2009 http://www.uel.ac.uk/news/press-releases/2009/06/visualarts2.htm
Talks/Presentations
2019 - Where has all the colour gone? Art Academy of Latvia, Paradox Conference
2018 Gestalt Aesthetics: London Metropolitan University, PhD Seminars
2017 We’re going Backwards: The Hong Kong academy for Performing Arts
2017 Diverse Aesthetics: Paradox Conference, Conway Hall London
2017 Practice based Research PhDs, Parnet Conference, Leeds University
2016 Empirical Aesthetics: NAFAE Conference, Lancaster University
2015 Social Norms: The Dragon Café, mental fight club, Borough, London,
2013 Wearable Futures: Ravensbourne University, London,
2013 Layering Masks: Scenography Symposium, National Gallery, Prague Quadrennial, Prague,
2013 Critical Costumes Symposium: Edge Hill University, Liverpool,
2011 Mentor Talk, Photography (BA) Year 3, University of East London, Dec 2011
2011- 2013 Discussing & Workshops on my Practice at The Performance Art Depot, Mainz, Germany
Art Directing/Choreography
2012 Feral, Vitrine Art Gallery, London
2012 Epoche, Deptford Town Hall, London
2009 On/off, London
2010 The Doll, London May
2011 Pierre Garoudi Fashion, London Fashion Week, Autumn/Winter show
Associate Member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors,
I am one half of the Collective Art Group: DollyOlli